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Multimedia surveillance systems is an emerging field that includes
signal and image processing, communications, and computer vision.
Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues
and Solutions, combines the most recent research results from these
areas for use by engineers and end-users involved in the design of
surveillance systems in the fields of transportation and services.
The book covers emerging surveillance requirements, including new
digital sensors for real-time acquisition of surveillance data,
low-level image processing algorithms, and event detection methods.
It also discusses problems related to knowledge representation in
surveillance systems, wireless and wired multimedia networks, and a
new generation of surveillance communication tools. Timely
information is presented on digital watermarking, broadband
multimedia transmission, legal use of surveillance systems,
performance evaluation criteria, and other new and emerging topics,
along with applications for transports and pedestrian monitoring.
The information contained in Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance
Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions, bridges the distance
between present practice and research findings, and the book is an
indispensable reference tool for professional engineers.
Monitoring of public and private sites is increasingly becoming a
very important and critical issue, especially after the recent
flurry of terrorist attacks including the one on the Word Trade
Center in September 2001. It is, therefore, imperative that
effective multisensor surveillance systems be developed to protect
the society from similar attacks in the future. The new generation
of surveillance systems to be developed have a specific
requirement: they must be able to automatically identify criminal
and terrorist activity without sacrificing individual privacy to
the extent possible. Privacy laws concerning monitoring and
surveillance systems vary from country to country but, in general,
they try to protect the privacy of their citizens. Monitoring and
visual surveillance has numerous other applications. It can be
employed to help invalids or handicapped and to monitor the
activities of elderly people. It can be used to monitor large
events such as sporting events, as well. Nowadays, monitoring is
employ d in several different contexts including transport
applications, such as monitoring of railway stations and airports,
dangerous environments like nuclear facilities or traffic flows on
roads and bridges. The latest generation of surveillance systems
mainly rely on hybrid analog-digital, or completely digital video
communications and processing methods and take advantage of the
greater of flexibility offered by video processing algorithms that
are capable focusing a human operator's attention on a set of
interesting situations.
Monitoring of public and private sites has increasingly become a
very sensitive issue resulting in a patchwork of privacy laws
varying from country to country -though all aimed at protecting the
privacy of the citizen. It is important to remember, however, that
monitoring and vi sual surveillance capabilities can also be
employed to aid the citizen. The focus of current development is
primarily aimed at public and cor porate safety applications
including the monitoring of railway stations, airports, and
inaccessible or dangerous environments. Future research effort,
however, has already targeted citizen-oriented applications such as
monitoring assistants for the aged and infirm, route-planning and
congestion-avoidance tools, and a range of environment al
monitoring applications. The latest generation of surveillance
systems has eagerly adopted re cent technological developments to
produce a fully digital pipeline of digital image acquisition,
digital data transmission and digital record ing. The resultant
surveillance products are highly-fiexihle, capahle of generating
forensic-quality imagery, and ahle to exploit existing Internet and
wide area network services to provide remote monitoring capability.
Advanced Video-Based Surveillance Systems presents second
generation surveillance systems that automatically process large
sets of signals for performance monitoring tasks. Included is
coverage of different architecture designs, customization of
surveillance architecture for end-users, advances in the processing
of imaging sequences, security systems, sensors, and remote
monitoring projects. Examples are provided of surveillance
applications in highway traffic control, subway stations, wireless
communications, and other areas. This work will be of interest to
researchers in image processing, computer vision, digital signal
processing, and telecommunications.
Monitoring of public and private sites is increasingly becoming a
very important and critical issue, especially after the recent
flurry of terrorist attacks including the one on the Word Trade
Center in September 2001. It is, therefore, imperative that
effective multisensor surveillance systems be developed to protect
the society from similar attacks in the future. The new generation
of surveillance systems to be developed have a specific
requirement: they must be able to automatically identify criminal
and terrorist activity without sacrificing individual privacy to
the extent possible. Privacy laws concerning monitoring and
surveillance systems vary from country to country but, in general,
they try to protect the privacy of their citizens. Monitoring and
visual surveillance has numerous other applications. It can be
employed to help invalids or handicapped and to monitor the
activities of elderly people. It can be used to monitor large
events such as sporting events, as well. Nowadays, monitoring is
employ d in several different contexts including transport
applications, such as monitoring of railway stations and airports,
dangerous environments like nuclear facilities or traffic flows on
roads and bridges. The latest generation of surveillance systems
mainly rely on hybrid analog-digital, or completely digital video
communications and processing methods and take advantage of the
greater of flexibility offered by video processing algorithms that
are capable focusing a human operator's attention on a set of
interesting situations.
The latest generation of visual surveillance systems have adopted
recent technological developments in acquisition and
communications. These advances have not so much changed the nature
of surveillance as extended its reach and reliability.
Fundamentally, systems remain relatively unintelligent with human
operators remaining central to the threat assessment and response
planning procedures found in CCTV installations. Nonetheless, the
availability of high-performance computing platforms will ensure
that cycle-hungry intellectual property gestating in academic and
industrial research programs will have a major impact on the next
generation of products. Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Computer
Vision and Distributed Processing, surveys works in progress in
laboratories from around the world. The first part of the book
present the most recent trends in the industrial world including
real-time systems for monitoring of indoor and outdoor
environments, society infrastructures such as subways and
motorways, retail stores and aerial surveillance. Part Two explores
current best practices in a chain of algorithms required to perform
robust and accurate real-time tracking for motion detection
involving rapid and frequent lighting changes, the establishment of
accurate temporally consistent object trajectories particularly in
crowded scenes, and the classification of object types. Part Three
contains contributions which attempt to analyze events unfolding in
a monitored scheme. The last part reviews distributed intelligent
architectures which are likely to exploit three key recent
technological developments in light-weight distributed computing
methodologies, and intelligent sensors. Sucharchitectures, in which
signal analysis is moving towards sensing devices, can exploit the
reduced bandwidth requirements of transmitting knowledge rather
than pixels. Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Computer Vision and
Distributed Processing provides timely information for
professionals working in the areas of surveillance, image
processing, computer vision, digital signal processing and
telecommunications.
Multimedia surveillance systems is an emerging field that includes
signal and image processing, communications, and computer vision.
Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems: Requirements, Issues
and Solutions, combines the most recent research results from these
areas for use by engineers and end-users involved in the design of
surveillance systems in the fields of transportation and services.
The book covers emerging surveillance requirements, including new
digital sensors for real-time acquisition of surveillance data,
low-level image processing algorithms, and event detection methods.
It also discusses problems related to knowledge representation in
surveillance systems, wireless and wired multimedia networks, and a
new generation of surveillance communication tools. Timely
information is presented on digital watermarking, broadband
multimedia transmission, legal use of surveillance systems,
performance evaluation criteria, and other new and emerging topics,
along with applications for transports and pedestrian monitoring.
The information contained in Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance
Systems: Requirements, Issues and Solutions, bridges the distance
between present practice and research findings, and the book is an
indispensable reference tool for professional engineers.
Advanced Video-Based Surveillance Systems presents second
generation surveillance systems that automatically process large
sets of signals for performance monitoring tasks. Included is
coverage of different architecture designs, customization of
surveillance architecture for end-users, advances in the processing
of imaging sequences, security systems, sensors, and remote
monitoring projects. Examples are provided of surveillance
applications in highway traffic control, subway stations, wireless
communications, and other areas. This work will be of interest to
researchers in image processing, computer vision, digital signal
processing, and telecommunications.
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